The Abbey Group Adopts Multifamily Strategy In Hyatt Partnership For Office Amenities

Real Estate Developers Eye Boston’s South End for Life Science Campus

A new life sciences development that could provide office and laboratory space for multiple companies is taking off the Boston’s South End neighborhood as an alternative Cambridge’s pricey Kendall Square. The Abbey Group is developing 5.6 acres in what the company describes as the ideal life sciences complex for the greater Boston area. The new space is located just a few miles from Kendall Square that has become the hub of the Boston biotech industry. Read More

Exchange South End Unveils Initial Ideas at South End Forum, Takes Show to the Road

Looking to pre-empt the City’s official process with their own “feeling out” of the South End community, principals of the Abbey Group appeared at the South End Forum on Weds., March 15, and then at the Blackstone/Franklin Square Neighborhood Association on Tuesday, March 21, to kick off a two-month tour of the neighborhood meetings aimed at getting feedback on their initial ideas before officially filing with the City later this spring. Read More

New owners of Flower Exchange unveil their plan for the site

The new owners of the former Boston Flower Exchange in the South End unveiled their plan for the site Wednesday night, envisioning four lab and office buildings, with thousands of tech and life sciences jobs, built around a 1-acre public plaza lined with restaurants, retail, and a new cultural center. Read More

Boston Flower Exchange vendors get 1-month extension at South End location

Massive office complex could blossom at Flower Exchange site

The buyers of the Boston Flower Exchange property Thursday unveiled plans to turn the 5.6-acre warehouse facility on Albany Street in the South End into a tech office campus they hope could rival Kendall Square in Cambridge, employing as many as 5,000 to 10,000 people. Read More

A sneak peak at The Viridian

The Abbey Group has signed another tech company lease at Lafayette City Center, a 615,000-square-foot office and retail complex in downtown Boston that has rapidly become a new hub for technology companies. Read More

Sonos is latest tech firm to head to Downtown Crossing

The real estate story of Sonos Inc., a maker of slick, wireless hi-fi systems, starts with the kind of setting you might expect — four employees toiling in a cramped office in Cambridge’s tech-dominated Kendall Square. Read More

Seven Things you should know about Robert Epstein

Robert Epstein is chief executive of The Abbey Group, a real estate investment firm that has developed some of Boston’s most significant buildings. The company’s projects include the 45 Province condominium tower downtown and The Viridian, a 322-unit apartment complex under construction near Fenway Park. In his spare time, he’s a managing partner of the Boston Celtics. Globe reporter Casey Ross recently talked with Epstein about his background and business philosophy. Read More

45 Province Redefines Splendid Lifestyle

All of the renewed activity in Downtown Crossing — the new restaurants, shops and residences, and even a supermarket in the not-too-distantfuture — has made Midtown the most exclusive neighborhood in Boston based on the selling price of condominiums there. Read More

Downtown Crossing Becoming Exclusive Address

The luxury condos at 45 Province St. in Downtown Crossing went on the market in 2009 at the height of the last recession, a monumental case of bad timing that seemed to doom the $120 million residential tower as another folly of the real estate bubble. Read More

Abbey’s Fenway Magic Moves Downtown

Two of New England’s premier hotels—located mere blocks from each other in the Hub’s Back Bay—are about to stoke the hospitality sales market in being offered by Eastdil Secured. Upwards of
$450 million could be involved in the separate transactions, according to one market expert who explains the split would be about two-thirds to the Park Plaza and $150 million for the Mandarin Oriental on Boylston Street at the Prudential Center. Read More

Abbey Group sells Landmark Center to JP Morgan and Samuels & Associates for $530.5 Million

According to The Abbey Group, they have sold Landmark Center, an office and retail complex near Fenway Park, for $530.5 million. The buyer is a joint venture between JP Morgan Investment Management Inc. and Samuels & Associates. Read More

It’s a Landmark Achievement for The Abbey Group

After watching others attempt and fail to re-develop the Landmark Center, the former Sears building in the Fenway neighborhood, The Abbey Group succeeded, then exceeded its own expectations for leasing out the 867,000 square feet of office and retail space. Read More